Advocates to the Front! 2024 WSCADV Conference

Native Advocates, we know how hard you work to bring healing to your communities. You carry the grief, trauma, strength, and resilience of every survivor. You also deserve healing. You also deserve rest. Please join us for an informal gathering to reflect, connect, and practice care for ourselves among our relatives. All Native Advocates are welcome.

Rooted Resiliency, led by a dedicated team of grassroots Indigenous women, offers trauma-informed wellness programs that honor cultural traditions, promote healing, and strengthen community resilience.

This space is intended for participants who identify as Native American, Alaska Native, First Nations, or Indigenous. Please contact us if you have any questions.

This workshop will provide an introduction to In Their Shoes: Teens and Dating Violence - Classroom Edition for anyone who wants to use this innovative community education tool in your work. Participants will experience the training for themselves, and learn best practices, tips and tricks for facilitators. In Their Shoes is a scenario-based training designed to help participants talk about what dating is like for today’s teens—from their perspective. Participants become teen characters, make choices about their relationships, and see what happens. In Their Shoes provides a snapshot of unhealthy teen relationships and generates a thoughtful discussion about the role we all have to play in stopping dating violence before it starts. Workshop participants will leave this training with a deeper understanding of teen dating violence from an intersectional perspective, and equipped with useful and intentional tools to facilitate this training in your own community.